So the only thing really keeping me from losing weight is fast food, I have it almost every day of the week for dinner, (and snack all day, no real breakfast or lunch, just a huge fast food dinner) and it's keeping me down, can anyone that has gone through a similar process help?
Fast food addiction? Is there a particular reason that you're having this fast food? I mean, is it just because you crave it or is it because you don't feel you have time to prepare something healthier?
Fast food addiction? Excuses.. You can lose weight while eating fast food, you just have to count calories. I usually eat fast food once or twice a week and I've lost over 80lbs.
Fast food addiction? You have to taper off gradually, try to get to the point where you're only having it once a week. Prepare healthy dinners for yourself, and it will eventually become a ritual. I like making brown rice in the rice cooker, and I thaw out a piece of chicken breast and cook it in a George Foreman grill. Chicken breast for protein, brown rice for complex carbohydrates, and half of an avocado for monounsaturated fats. I don't really understand why anyone would eat fast food for dinner every night, I had a problem going there once a week or so, I would lose weight considtently, then I would get paid and go pig out on fast food and gain more weight back. Right now I'm trying something where I don't eat any fast food at all. If you taper off gradually, you should be able to kick the habit and get to a point where you only have it during infrequent cheat meals.
Fast food addiction? I eat 2 mcdoubles from mcdonalds almost every week, usually when I'm out doing stuff and I'm at the end of my fast/can't cook chicken/rice in truck.
Fast food addiction? Fast food is one of the easiest methods for a newbie to lose weight simply because calorie and macro information is super easy to find online. Seriously a chicken salad + chicken fajita pita from Jack in the Box = ~50g of protein with about 600 calories. Or 3 Chicken Fresca Tacos from Taco Bell with ~ 33g of protein and ~450 calories. You can't use fast food as a blanket excuse to be overweight. You just have to be smart and pay attention to everything you eat.
Fast food addiction? I swear, Mcdonald's has to be putting in stuff that makes you want more. When I started eating Mcdonald's in the beginning I still had low appetite and a happy meal would seem like a lot to me, but then gradually my appetite went way up after 1-2 weeks I really started noticing it and I gained weight as well. Whereas I can diet on marshmellows, pancakes, milkyways, chips, white bread etc. (Yup, I'm a carb junkie, also a cardio junkie though) and my appetite stays really low and I don't start craving the stuff more than the amount of calories I need at all. It's like if someone were to put an addictive substance in food, you wouldn't become addicted to the food, but to the substance in it therefore crave the food more.... That's just what I think. I'm sure they put in appetite stimulants in it as well (maybe not intentionally).
Fast food addiction? Well, I'm 18. And I don't really know how to cook, and my parents say they don't have time, so that's how we make up for it.
Fast food addiction? If you have fast food at home, try to not get that stuff anymore, worked wonders for me
